Tag Archives: 1957

ASCII-portraits of Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson made with a UNIVAC in 1957. via (Technically not ASCII since it didn’t exist, but perhaps EBCDIC) h/t: Marcin Wichary

Police dog Tosca by Will Hollis (1957)

Design 102 textile design by Frank Lloyd Wright, produced by F Schumacher & Co in 1957.

Weather Teletype Code, 1957.

Weather information was typed on a teletype machine that produced a perforated tape coded with the data, forecast or warning. This tape could then be used on one or more teletype circuits to distribute the information. The image below displays the punchtape code. Many meteorologists and communicators could read this code directly from the tape.